Installing and Removing IMPRES Battery Fleet Management

This topic describes how to install and remove IMPRES Battery Fleet Management from your computer.

Installation

Note: You need to have Administrator rights on the target computer in order to install IMPRES Battery Fleet Management

Follow the steps below for the CD-ROM version:

Insert the CD-ROM containing the installation into the CD-ROM drive
If the installation application does not start within 30 seconds, the auto-run feature for CD-ROMs for your operating system is likely disabled. Brouse to your CD-ROM driver and run the autorun program. For example, if the E drive is the CD-ROM drive, run E:\autorun.exe

Follow the steps below for the software package version

Unzip the Motorola IMPRES Battery Fleet Management package to a directory of a local disk
Browse to this directory and run the setup.exe program.

If a previous version of Motorola IMPRES Battery Fleet Management has already been installed, you will be given the option to "Repair" or "Remove". If you are upgrading the Motorola IMPRES Battery Fleet Management, then remove the previous version and start the installation process again. If you are re-installing the Motorola IMPRES Battery Fleet Management, then choose the repair option. Please see the Removal section of this document (below) for complete instructions for removing and/or re-installing IMPRES Battery Fleet Management.

Note: The IMPRES Battery Fleet Management installation requires Windows Installer version 3.1 or greater. If Windows Installer 3.1 or greater is not installed on the target computer, you must install it prior to installing IMPRES Battery Fleet Management

Prerequsites

Prerequesites are software packages that are used by IMPRES Battery Fleet Management that may or may not already installed on the target computer. If not installed, the IMPRES Battery Fleet Management setup program will automatically install them for you. A Prequsites dialog will appear at the beginning of the installation if you are missing one or more prerequisite applications and will give you the option of installing the prerequsite or canceling the IMPRES Battery Fleet Management installation. The prerequsites for IMPRES Battery Fleet Management are:

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Note that after this prerequisite is installed, the target computer will automatically be rebooted
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express. Note: IMPRES Battery Fleet Management will install it's database into the default database instance

Determining if the Computer is a Client or a Server

You should designate one computer in your organization as the IMPRES Battery Fleet Management server. All other computers onto which IMPRES Battery Fleet Management is installed would then be considered to be client computers.

The IMPRES Battery Fleet Management installation procedure is the same for both client and server computers and you will not choose a type designation during the installation. Which computer is the server and which are clients is defined to IMPRES Battery Fleet Management during the application setup and configuration. However, you should be aware that the hardware prerequistes differ between client and server computers as follows:

For the Server

1 GB free disk space
CPU 2.2 x 2GHz or above
A CD-ROM drive

For the Clients

512 MB free disk space
CPU 1GHz or above
One USB port or more
A CD-ROM drive

Uninstall

To remove IMPRES Battery Fleet Management from your computer, click "Add or Remove Programs" from the Control Panel, select "Motorola IMPRES Battery Fleet Management" and click on the Remove button. Follow the instructions in the removal process to un install IMPRES Battery Fleet Management.